nice thread. sorry for the noisy comment, but most threads similar to this end up with folks griping that the interviewer asked them to invert a binary tree or

nice thread. sorry for the noisy comment, but most threads similar to this end up with folks griping that the interviewer asked them to invert a binary tree or other such super basic stuff that -- no, you do not do every day or even ever at all, but -- is 101 level stuff that you better be able do in a few minutes from first principles. sticking with that theme, even AVL or red/black you better be able to describe it off the top of your head although asking to implement a working solution covering all edge cases in the span of an interview session is nonsense. no, in this thread people are describing actually hard, complex algorithms and ridiculous interviews. so sad to see that these questions are still being asked today. this is the best thread on this subject that i have ever seen on HN.